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I can no longer tell what is and is not satire. (mander.xyz)
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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/25971320

Is this a joke? What else could be under that tarp? It even has a little flap for the plug.

I feel my ability to understand satire is being attacked by reality.

And I checked the comments and its a mix of musk riding:

"I don’t understand how people get so easily manipulated into hating someone that has done so much to change our life’s. Elon is great man and is doing great things for our country and uncovering so much corruption and honestly he needs more credit"

or thinking this is a joke:

"That’s not hiding the fact that there’s a swastikar under it"

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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 89 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lmao, this is obviously a troll.

It's not even satire, just straight up trolling.

When you use the cover, guess what gets blocked? The cameras.

So no more sentry mode.

This just makes the cybertruck an even more attractive target.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i think the actual purpose is to prevent water damage

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a dust cover, not a waterproof tarp.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, so the purpose is to trap in moisture to accelerate that coveted patina

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Coveted Patina is also the less successful sequel to Stephen King's Needful Things.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Nice

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Lord knows that car can’t do so by itself.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 months ago (5 children)

JFC that car is humongous. I could fit my small car twice under that tarp, with room to spare. Or that guy is tiny.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder "why not put it in your garage" but then oh yeah, because tiny man want big truck to feel big, so big he can't park it in his garage anymore

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I don't think one would fit in my garage...

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

A bit of him is probably very tiny.

[–] beebers@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

They barely fit in parking spaces

[–] misophonium@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Edmund's spec sheet gives a height of 70.5in (5'10.5) so he's probably around 5'6

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I could practically fit my apartment under that tarp

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's actually Elon musk under that blanket

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Fucking brilliant

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Truly no one else in history has ever or will ever again design a car after their rib cage. You've done it, Elmo, you've invented something in your life!

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Take it as a cautionary tale. Even though depraved money demons control every major aspect of social and news media and you are surrounded by a constant ear-splitting blare of fascistic brown-note, nobody will ever be better at lying to you than yourself.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Finally something in which I can flex my specific knowledge of the human world!

It is a joke: the shape of the truck is quite peculiar and covering hides none of its typical features.

[–] Beldarofremulak@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure? I didn't see any tags. Best to be safe and assume this is something serious and malicious.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 3 points 3 months ago

I don't see any tag in your reply I'll therefore assume you are being serious and malicious.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Ah yes the F-150 with the sharply angled roof.

[–] egidighsea@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No wonder we don’t buy US cars in Europe - in which city center could that monster fit in?

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Moscow

[–] oplkill@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nope, its pretty narrow and Tesla would be there simply stolen

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

In scrap parts*

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I dont think the owner of this car would care about the disgusting lower class meat or their so called opinions.

[–] 01189998819991197253 11 points 3 months ago

Why is he wrapping that dumpster?

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago

Poe’s Law

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What a shitty ass car tarp

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its even ripped already

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago

That's for refilling the meme tank.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Swastiboat with sparky tail butt plug

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah totally looks like a F150. Good job 👍

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you can tell what car it is even when it's under a tarp it's a bad design.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's just false. Some of the most beautiful cars ever made have such distinct body lines that most car enthusiasts could easily pick them out even when covered in a tarp.

Yes I picked one that is comically easy because of the giant wing, but I'm using it on purpose. Simply because a car can be identified while coverd doesn't mean it's bad design.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Roadrunner?

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your example car looks like a bad design also. Some people may really like the truck design, I mean, think about all the crap that becomes popular.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That car got kicked out of NASCAR for being too fast and winning all the time.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I stand corrected, it is a good design for racing.

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hate Tesla as much as the next guy, but recognizing a thing with just a silhouette doesn’t mean it’s a bad design, it just means it’s unique and memorable

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cars shouldn't be memorable at least not by their silhouette. Cause all the shape that they are because that is the shape that is optimum for a car to be. So if a car is memorable by its silhouette then that means it's not an optimum shape.

Whoever designed that vehicle doesn't have a grasp of the aerodynamic concepts, so I assume it was Elon himself.

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Usually I’d let this go but by all principles of design and all historic reality you’re just wrong. You want “optimum shape” wtf are you even talking about? Optimum for what? You talking aerodynamics? Because newsflash, check last 30 years of F1 with as optimized aero as it gets and it’s a spec car … yet they still have brilliant unique and recognizable designs. Idk what a designer did to you to be so salty about this but you’re just wrong and it’s a very weird hill to dig yourself onto

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Username checks out

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No I'm talking about how it doesn't conform to safety regulations which for some bizarre reason appear to be optional in the United States.

Cars have to conform to certain requirements in order to be a functional vehicle part of being a functional vehicle is to be a legal vehicle. If it's so goddamn angular that you would cut a pedestrian in half upon impact then it isn't functional.

Racing cars aren't really relevant because racing cars aren't meant to be around the rest of the public so they can do whatever they want.

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

If you want to launch into a completely different and separate conversation about safety and street legality of the cybertruck here we can but the short of it is - I agree that swastikar shouldn’t be road legal.

HOWEVER, your initial claim was about how the design should not be recognizable under a tarp and that it’s a bad design if it is. That’s just objectively false.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What a weird take.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My point that nobody seems to be able to actually get is that if you are making a car it should look like a car.

It shouldn't look like a weird art installation because ultimately it has to work as a functional vehicle first and foremost. And part of that is not being in death trap to everyone in the local environment. There's some reason these things aren't sold in Europe.

If a car is unsafe then it has failed in its most fundamental aspect of being a useful vehicle. Because a unsafe car is not a car that you can use.

The only reason these things are allowed on the roads in the US is that the US don't actually care about their own citizens well-being.